Hiver

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Hivers are a Major Race in the Traveller Universe.

The Hivers are race based on six-fold symmetry. Of all the major races they both appear and think the most “alien” to most humans. Despite their name Hivers actually have a highly individualistic society; they are called Hivers because their dominant architecture was said to resemble beehives by the first humans who encountered them. They avoid where possible direct violence and war, preferring instead to work behind the scenes via all forms of covert manipulation.

K‘kree contact with the Hive Federation was followed by the Hiver-K’kree war of -2029 to -2013. K'kree military technology proved superior in the first stages of the war. The war ended when the Hive Federation demonstrated a plan to radically alter the K’kree social order through the use of psychohistorical techniques and threatened to implement it. The K‘kree withdrew to the pre-war borders, and the border between the two states has remained stable to this day.